[APK] New Google Search v3.4 = Parking Cards, Interface and more

New Google Search update v3.4 is "out" and brings up some new cool features such parking card, some interface updates and lots of minor updates. APK incoming!

So, what's new? You can expect this cool "parking card" showing you the current position of your parcked car, redesigned interface of reminders and also new list for nicknames (e.g. if you set Jane as your wife, you can just call her by saying "call my wife" and Google will recognize who to call).
Some screens of the new version:

• DOWNLOAD (MEGA)
• DOWNLOAD (ZippyShare)

[Androidpolice.com]

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PORTED - Get Sony Xperia Z2 Apps On Your Android Device

Another amazing port coming from Jihnu Sur lets us to try out and enjoy the apps of a new Sony device - Xperia Z2. It's been a while from release and now you can savor the apps (including launcher) on your Android device!

This mod is created especially for Nexus 5, however it should also work well on Nexus 4 (and maybe on some more devices). In every case, though, make a nandroid backup before installing.



The update comes in all-in-one flashable zip so you need to be rooted.


Apps included in the update:

1) Home
2) Walkman - Fixed
3) Album
4) Movies.
5) Easy Home.
6) Notes
7) Sketch
8) Smart Connect
9) Social Life News.
10) Xperia Lounge
11) Social Life News.
12) Tools Widgets
13) Walkman Widget
14) Weather Widgets
15) Sony Xperia Z2 LWP
16) Calender
17) Sony Select

18) Facebook Integration.

• Download (original XDA thread)

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How many devices are connected to your WiFi network?

Interested how many devices are connected to a public network? Is there a stranger spying on your private network? Now you can find out with this awesome app! Moreover, you don't need root to find out!


There are already many apps out there that shows how many people are connected to a network but these apps mostly require root access. This app, however, does not!
It's calledd WiFi Watch and it does one simple job. This app searches all the connected device (including wired connection), shows their manufacturer, MAC adress and IP adress.



Also, if the router supports this feature, the list will also show the devices that are not using the net right now but used it in the past. Pretty useful feature, uh?

As mentioned, WiFi Watch does not require root and is available for free on Google Play Store.

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Easily Control Your PC From Your Android Phone With Chrome Remote Desktop

You've probably heard of programs such like TeamViewer that are capable of something called remote desktop feature which mirrors the activity from your PC to other device. Chrome Remote Desktop lets you do excatly this and lets you to control your PC from your Android phone! Moreover, it's extremly smooth & easy to setup!

As mentioned above, it's extremly easy to setup this thing and extremly easy to run. Moreover, it's extremly smooth, TeamViewer looks like a laggy stuff compared to this one.



 

As you can see on the images, you can take absolute control of your/friend's PC and everything goes absolutely smooth and fast.


To setup this thing, you need to download two files,

• Chrome Remote Desktop for Android
• Chrome Extension for PC

Setup your PIN code, open your Android app, paste it in there and you're basically there.

If you tick the option to remember the PIN, you can access to your PC absolutely everytime. You don't really need to verify the PIN everytime you want to connect. Cool, isn't it?

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Memory Locker - Lock Apps In Memory And Prevent Them From Auto-Killing

Every running app uses RAM and burdens the system. To prevent from slowing the system down and make it usable, there is something like auto-killer that literally kills the running app if needed (other words, when the memory is running down) and that may be sometimes not-helpful. Unfortunately, stock Android ROM doesn't offer us to lock apps in memory and prevent them from this auto-kill but this one app does - Memory Locker.

You know dat feel:

Playing a game, suddenly a friend texts, you minimaze the game to see what's happening, reply to friend and return to the game. And you realize your game re-opens again..All your progress...record...all again...

Not anymore.


Memory Locker works simple, easy. You choose which apps you want to lock to prevent them from killing (you can also choose system apps, of course), and the app does everything for you. And yes, root is needed.

 

App costs only 1.5$ and if you don't like it, you can refund it and get your money back. Money back guaranteed, as the author says.

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PS: Don't try to "memory lock" too many apps at once.

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Leaked - Cyanogen Mod's New Phone OnePlus One Showing Up On Screenshots - Here's what to expect

The new CyanogenMod's phone OnePlus is round the corner and going to be released very soon (in a few days) but we already have the specifications, screenshots of the ROM and even some quality renders of this amazing phone!

It's been a while the teaser has been released called unboxing the OnePlus One where is the founder of the CyanogenMod company Steve Kondik unboxing this beast but it didn't really show up anything but the box full of accessories and stuff. Here's the video (if you haven't seen it yet):

Now we already know what to expect, here are the specifications:

• Snapdargon 801 @ 2.5Ghz
• 13Mpx Camera with Sony Exmor lens
• 3GB RAM
• 3100mAh battery

The phone will be released on April 23rd and if you want you can join the countdown madness and win the OnePlus One! You can join here. Talking of the OnePlus, here are some of the leaks..

There have also been some rumours about the new CyanogenMod OS for this new phone, see the lockscreen below:

[androidcentral, androidauthority ]

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[APK] Get "Moonshine" Icons From The Leaked Screenshots

If you read fresh Android news, you have probably heard of the new icons called Moonshine. Though it's just a rumor, it's very probable that these icons are going to be used in next version of Android and/or in web sites such as Gmail, Google Drive and others. Android Police server has provided us the screenshots with these icons and as you might expect, these icons have been ported (according to this screenshot) and they're now available for download!

If you haven't heard about these icons yet, you should definitely check them out:

 

As you can see on the screenshots above, the icons are nicely redefined and have a nice look. If you look closer, you can see the shadow of the icons (that's probably why it's called Moonshine) and I wouldn't mind them if they appear in the new Android version.

According to these screenshots, a smart Android user Pablo Poll has make a port with these icons coming in the apk file and it's working on any launcher that supports this feature (to change the icons).

I find them very cool and nice and if you want, you can download by clicking the link below:

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[APK] Samsung Galaxy S5 Weather Widget - Ported!

It looks like the porting mania has just started and the apps from the new Samsung flagship are getting ported even though this phone hasn't fully reached the market yet. This time it's the very favourite weather widget - fully working, with animation, clock and all the stuff. Now you can also get it on your device!

First of all, this widget (unfortunately) works only on TouchWiz based ROMs so don't attempt to install it on your non-touchwiz device. (It may work on deodexed ROMs, though). Don't forget to make a backup before doing any of this stuff.

How To Install?

1. Download a root browser and navigate to /system/app
2. Find a make a backup of AccuweatherWidget.apk
3. Download the Samsung Galaxy S5 widget
4. Replace it with the old one and set the permissions to: rw-r--r--
5. Reboot your phone.

You obviously need to be rooted in case to replace a system file.

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[APK] Samsung Galaxy S5 - Wallpapers, Sounds, Launcher, Apps, Fonts = PORTED!

Although the Samsung's new flagship Galaxy S5 may not have been even released, we can already enjoy all the apps, wallpapers and even launcher! And guess, what: there are way more than this. Now you can download fonts, sounds, apps, boot animation, and just everything you need!

Well, let's get straight to it. The links are refering to its original XDA thread, so if you have any further question about the apps or experience any problems, you can drop a line right there.

Note also some of the apps listed may not work on all devices. As mentioned, report the problems to the threads.

• Wallpapers
• Boot animation
• Sounds
• Fonts
• Milk

The below apps will only work with a Touchwiz based device:

• File Manager
• Weather

The below apps will only work with a Touchwiz 4.4 based device:

• SNote
• Watchon
• Calculator
• Gear Fit
• Gear Manager
• S Health
• S Translator
• MMS
• Email
• S Baro
• Voice Note
• S Planner
• Easy One Hand
• Kids Mode
• File Manager
• Download Manager
• Scrapbook
• S Voice
• Video Player
• Task Manager

I'm also a human being (O RLY) so If I made a mistake anywhere in the links, please drop me a comment & I'll fix that. Enjoy!

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Knock Lock - Lock Your Phone By Tapping On The Display

The new LG's flagship G2 has revealed some new features to the world, for instance: tap2wake function, which enables the device's display by just tapping on it. It's fast, easy and simple. Now, there's a new function that's also as handy as the tap2wake function. It's called knock2sleep and as you might expect, it locks the device by tapping on its display. And how does it work? Meet the Knock Lock. 

Knock Lock is a very handy and useful app (also lightweight) that does one simple thing to your device. Turns it off. The elegant way. As mentioned before, it enables the "knock to sleep" function, which turns off the display whenever you double-knock your display.

Don't worry, the "knocking point" is very small and also can be set. All you need to do is to enable the app as an administrator of the device, set the knocking point (or leave it as it is) and you're done.

No root access needed.

 

You can see the letter K above on the first image. That's the knocking point. In default, it's up there in the status bar. The bad thing is, wherever your knocking point is, the display will not work. Well, it will work, but it won't be functional and accessable to other apps.

Either way, it's well-designed, nice, simple and lightweight app and it's free! And it definitely worths a shot:

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Reduce Graphics And Play ANY Game Without Lags With GLTools

You've probably experienced that pain called lag at least once in your life. It hurts. Especially when playing a game. But what if I told you that you can easily reduce the resolution of that game, or even fake GPU info and play ANY game you want without lags! Isn't that amazing? Check this awesome app.

It's called GLTools and it's from an XDA member called n0n3m4. What it basically do, is that it changes the overall graphics (and resolution) of any game and makes it playable even if your device has not enough performance to run it!

You can decompress/recompress the textures, optimize shaders, or enable MSAA or CSAA to improve graphics! It even comes with an FPS counter so you can check the smoothness on any app you want.

 

Does the app say that your phone isn't compatible? Fake the GPU info and fix the problem in a jiffy!
All you need to do is to download the app and install the plugins.

• DOWNLOAD (XDA Thread)

Make sure you make a backup before isntalling. Also ensure you have ticked the option to create the uninstall_gltools.zip file so you can easily revert and uninstall the plugins in recovery whenever it goes wrong.

Custom recovery & root is required.

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MIUI Express - A Complete MIUI Launcher For Your Android Device

MIUI, as the vast majority of you already know, is a freeware ROM available on the miui.us site and it's also one of the most popular ROMs ever created. The good thing is, we have a full port of the complete MIUI launcher with working apps, wallpapers, market and just everything!

If you ever wanted to try the MIUI out but you were afraid of flashing and all of the stuff, so you just gave it up. Well, now's the best time for you to try it finally out!

The whole thing is called MIUI Express and it works like all other launchers do. So you don't basically have to be rooted in order to run any of the features of this app.
Although it's just a launcher, it's pretty much accurate to the original MIUI ROM - the wallpapers, icons, widgets, even some apps are re-designed to the original ROM-design.

 

If you want to customize your MIUI Launcher, you can - using Themes: as in the original MIUI, you can install any theme you like including wallpapers, icons, lockscreens or full setups (like the iPhone setup, for instance).

The whole thing can be downloaded for free on the official site: Download

Be sure to have Android 4 and higher, 1GB or RAM at least, and 80MB of free storage.

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Chrome Tweaks - How To Fix Lags And Increase Performance On Android

Google Chrome for Android isn't what it used to be. It's now much more customizable and offers much more options especially for developers and people who like to try out new stuff. If you experience lags on your device, there's always an easy way to fix this problem in developer settings of Google Chrome.

In the few last updates, there have been added some extra features accessable via chrome://flags adress.
This experimental feature is available either on Android phones, but also on PC's.

These fuctions are very experimental, and may damage your browser badly if you don't know what you're doing. Therefore, don't enable function you don't understand. If you want to get the experimental (but stable) version of Google Chrome, head over Google Play Market and download Chrome Beta.

But not all of them cause problems, though. Some of them may actually boost your Chrome browser and reduce lags. To do so, simply follow these instructions:

1. Open your Chrome browser
2. Type chrome://flags/#max-tiles-for-interest-area“ and find max tiles for interest area feature (if that doesn't work for you, just access the chrome://flags adress and find this feature manually)
3. Set it to 512
4. Restart your browser.

Basically, this simple step changes the RAM usage for the chrome (512MB) and therefore all the data, pages and stuff are stored to your RAM. This however, can cause problems if your phone has a low-sized RAM (do not enable this if your phone has 512MB of RAM or you have no free ram available on your device).

 


If you can't enable this function, don't be sad, there are plenty of more useful features such as accelerated scrolling, which makes the scrolling much smoother.

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